Robin Hay
Call
Called 1964
Practice groups
Appointments
Recorder 1985-2005
Legal assessor, General Medical Council
Legal assessor, Nursing & Midwifery Council
Legal Advisor, Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Legal Advisor, Faculty & Institute of Actuaries
Chairman Appeals Panel, Postgraduate Medical & Training Board
Education
Eltham College
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Practice
All types of personal injury claims for claimants and defendants; particular experience in marine cases. Professional negligence claims involving medical practitioners, solicitors, barristers, accountants, surveyors and insurance brokers. Product liability, especially tyres. Contractual disputes, Insurance Policy work, Insolvency, Disciplinary & Regulatory proceedings.
Reported cases include
Holman v FT Everard & Sons ("The Jack Wharton") [1986] 2 Lloyds Rep 382 (ship master's duty of care)
Coltman v Bibby Tankers Ltd [1988] AC 276 (employers' liability - Defective Premises Act - whether ship is "premises")
Berriello v Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co [1989] 1 WLR 695 (whether Italian welfare fund payments to be deducted from damages)
Rath v Lawrence [1991] 1 WLR 399 (strike out - want of prosecution)
Various entries in Current Law and Kemp & Kemp
Other cases of interest
1988 Formal investigation into loss of MV Derbyshire
1998 "Margaret & William II" PTSD
2000 Re-opened formal investigation into loss of MV Derbyshire
2004 Wilson v The Maersk Co Ltd [2004] EWCA Civ 313
Membership
South Eastern Circuit
London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association
Association for Victims of Medical Accidents
Ecclesiastical Law Society
Interests
Choral singing; church tasting; gastronomy; hedging & ditching
